by Nick Gima
With lightning flashing in the southern skies, Billy Balog of Brookfield scooted through and around traffic and then outran the field to win the first-ever A-feature at the ABC Raceway for the touring Interstate Racing Association Outlaw Sprint Series on Saturday night.

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by Kyle Luetters
Jason Meyers has been a man on a mission in July, closing out the month Saturday night at Autodrome Drummond with his third World of Outlaws victory of the season. Since taking the checkers on July 7 at Cedar Lake Speedway in Wisconsin, Meyers and his Elite Racing Team have posted 11 Top 5 finishes in 14 events, including his three wins, to vault himself to the top of the championship standings.

“The month of July has just been awesome for us, and so has Canada,” said Meyers, of Clovis, Calif., who earned the 50th victory in his World of Outlaws career. “We almost got the win last night at Brockville (Ontario Speedway) but broke through tonight. We need to dedicate this one to Shane Bowers though. He’s new to our team this year and his grandfather was having some issues so Shane flew back to be with him during the Ohsweken (Speedway) race. We’re happy to say that Shane is with us here tonight and Grandpa is doing much better.”

Meyers started the night on the pole after winning the dash but it was Lucas Wolfe on the charge early as he took aim at his first win by leading the first five circuits before Meyers’ preferred line worked itself in.

“They watered the low groove so it took some time in the feature to get it worked in,” Meyers said. “Once it did and we got the wing pulled back and the fuel load off, the car was simply amazing.”

While Meyers ran away with the victory, the battle for second intensified as Steve Kinser began to challenge Lucas Wolfe in the latter stages of the 35-lap event. Kinser, a 20-time champion and last year’s winner at Autodrome Drummond, used lapped traffic to his advantage to work past Wolfe.

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Victory Lane Photo courtesy of Stan Meissner from Minnesota Dirt Track Racing.by Greg Parent
With lightning flashing to the north and west of the track, Brooke Tatnell overtook race long leader Cody Hahn with less than two laps to go enroute to his second Upper Midwest Sprintcar Series (UMSS) feature win of the season on Saturday night July 30 at the Cedar Lake Speedway. Picking up where he left off last September, the talented driver from the "Land Down Under" now residing in Forest Lake recorded his second straight UMSS feature win at the legendary western Wisconsin 3/8 mile dirt oval on a warm and muggy summer evening.

Defending UMSS Champion Cody Hahn had led the race from the beginning, withstanding a yellow with five laps in for a spin and a red flag after eleven laps when Tony Norem got upside down in turn two. Just like the previous night, Brooke Tatnell found himself in second at the final caution with an opportunity to race for the win. Hahn held strong until lap 19 when Tatnell made the winning pass entering turn three with a little over a lap to go. Although he wanted to win the feature race, Hahn summed up the experience afterwards by stating "I got beat by a veteran racer tonight with a great deal of talent." Tatnell had the chance to follow Hahn for several laps. Seeing he was strong on the bottom lane, Tatnell moved up the track a little bit and found some grip. Sometimes running a close second has its advantages.

Jerry Richert, Jr. maintained his point lead with a solid third place run. Fargo, ND driver Lee Grosz finished fourth just ahead of Brad Barickman. Friday night race winner Andy Jones was sixth followed by Scott Broty, Joseph Kouba, Tony Kaus, and Ronnie Erickson in the top ten. As the high point driver after the typical two rounds of UMSS qualifying races, Tatnell drew the #4 pill for the feature race invert. This put Grosz, Hahn and Tatnell's brother-in-law Jerry Richert, Jr. in the top three starting positions for the 20 lap main event. It only took Tatnell a couple of laps to move into second, but it took him considerably longer to eventually gain the lead and feature victory over the seventeen car field.

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by Matt Panure
Whether it was in the shop over the past three days or on the track for 40 laps in the Budweiser Late Model Feature, one thing was certain - Rich Schumann Jr. and his team worked hard for their first win of the season at Dells Raceway Park.

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by Jordan Kuehne
The kid doesn't even have a driver's license; that wasn't enough to stop 15-year-old Erik Jones tonight though as the young gun survived a late restart with six circuits remaining to capture the 20th running of the JEGS/CRA All-Star Tour 'All-Star 100' presented by Stanley Steemer and wear the legendary wreath at the Rockford Speedway. With the win, Jones' first in the series, the teenager joins the growing ranks of past legends that have claimed the checkers in the 'All-Star 100' including hallowed names that seared themselves into memory like Allison, Shear, Trickle, and Martin.

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